Nguru Spiny Mouse

Nguru Spiny MouseThis spiny mouse was collected on dry, stony slopes and wooded savannah in Tanzania. In the original description, measured specimens were larger and heavier than A. muzei, with shorter tails and hind feet. A 2019 study assigns a lineage extending from eastern Tanzania to central Mozambique to this species.What does it look like?Specimens measured for the 2011 description were larger and heavier than A. muzei, but had shorter tails and hind feet and a more robust skull.How does it live?This spiny mouse was collected on dry, stony slopes and wooded savannah in Tanzania. In the original description, measured specimens were larger and heavier than A. muzei, with shorter tails and hind feet. A 2019 study assigns a lineage extending from eastern Tanzania to central Mozambique to this species.Type specimens from Nguru Ya Ndege were collected on a very dry, gently sloping hillside with wooded savannah. The stony hillside also had hilltop forest, scattered miombo and gully forest. This describes the collection site in the 2011 original account.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.